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Willa Cather was not a flashy stylist, and though she was ambitious in her work, she did not attach it to a publicity-worthy life like some of her contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cather’s first book of poetry came out in 1903, when she was twenty-nine; her first …

<i>How did Amanda Gorman become the first person to be named</i> <i>national youth poet laureate</i><i>?</i><p><i>She shares her story with the Race/Related newsletter below.</i><p><i>Ms. Gorman also wrote original poems, which we animated. Watch them</i> <i>here</i><i>.</i><p><i>For more coverage of race,</i> <i>sign up</i> <i>to have our newsletter delivered weekly to your</i> …

A recent interview with the author Akwaeke Emezi, whose début novel is called “Freshwater,” refers to certain autobiographical “realities” in which the book is rooted—realities that include Emezi’s “identity . . . as an ogbanje.” An ogbanje, Emezi has explained is “an Igbo spirit that’s born into a …

The award-winning author of four novels in 34 years has a new book of essays out. She talks about how faith can be the key to a balanced life<p>The novelist, academic and essayist Marilynne Robinson is one of the United States’s leading intellectuals, tackling the big subjects of faith, fear and …

The follow-up to Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli’s children’s book about women who changed the world is already seeing unprecedented demand<p>From mathematicians to firefighters and from Boudicca to Beyoncé, a new army of “rebel girls” is about to shoulder its way on to bookshelves in the …

Penguin, in conjunction with Waterstones, will mark International Women’s Day by opening a pop-up store in east London<p>Penguin is saying yes to Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood but no to the likes of James Joyce and Martin Amis as it prepares to open a bookshop in east London that will only sell …

Lauded by Lena Dunham and the basis of a character in TV show Transparent, the poet discusses newfound fame, dogs and a ‘screwy memoir of queerness’<p>A<i>fterglow</i> is described on the jacket as a “dog memoir”, and by Eileen Myles as “a weirdo, Kafka-type book” that is also a “screwy memoir of queerness”. …

When author Judy Blume first broached topics like puberty and adolescent sexuality in her writing, it was long before those questions could be asked in a quick Google search.<p>Yet for those who read her now, her tales of adolescence remain modern – so much so that many of her young readers are …

Terese Marie Mailhot started her new memoir, <i>Heart Berries</i>, while she was in a mental institution, where she had committed herself after a breakdown. The pages bleed with the pain of mental illness, lost love and her family history on an Indian reservation in British Columbia.<p>It's a collection of …

In 1908, at 26, Virginia Woolf began writing what would become her first novel, <i>The Voyage Out</i> (published in 1915). A century later and the British author would be known as one of the most prolific names to ever grace the literary world. However, Woolf’s writing wasn’t as widely acclaimed and …

With her fourth novel, An American Marriage (and a little help from Oprah), Jones is arriving at the big moment she’s been waiting for.<p><b>A novel written in</b> the English language with a name like <i>An American Marriage</i> conjures up a specific set of broad outlines: post-war optimism, masturbation in the …

When the writer of the acclaimed bestseller Lullaby met the author of Brit(ish), a timely book on race and identity, they found a lot of common ground…<p>Two highly serious and influential women are sitting in a pub in Dulwich, south-east London, looking at one another – almost gawping, in fact – and …

The author of A Little Life on life-changing Philip Roth, her jealousy of Kazuo Ishiguro, and why Hilary Mantel’s earlier work is underrated<p><b>The book I am currently reading</b><br>David France’s <i>How to Survive a Plague</i>, a history of Aids and Aids activism in the United States. And Alan Hollinghurst’s <i>The</i> …